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Cover Artist: Pamela Carroll

Born and raised in Southern California, Pamela Carroll embraces the traditional techniques of Realism and painting from life. 

Her artwork is inspired by the early Dutch and Spanish masters as well as contemporary realist painters. Pam's work focuses on showcasing the beauty and inherent truth in everyday objects.   

Interview: Gina Ochsner

To preview Catherine Segurson’s interview with Gina Ochsner click on the title below:

GINA OCHsNEr Interview

Gina Ochsner teaches writing and literature at Corban University and is on faculty with Seattle Pacific University’s low-residency MFA program. She is the author of the short story collections The Necessary Grace to Fall (University of Georgia Press, 2002) and People I Wanted to Be (Houghton Mifflin, 2005). Her novels include The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010) and The Hidden Letters of Velta B. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016). Ochsner has been awarded the Raymond Carver Short Story Prize, the Katherine Anne Porter Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and the Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize. Her work has also been published in The Kenyon Review, Image, Ploughshares, and The New Yorker.

To preview selected poetry, fiction, and nonfiction features click on the title below:

Fiction: Steven Lang

THe Nova Experiment

Steven Lang is a writer and artist from Minnesota. He received his BFA from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His short fiction has been published by Milkweed Editions, the University of Minnesota Press, and the journals CutBank, Chestnut Review, Slush Pile Magazine, and Stonecoast Review. He is at work on a novel and a collection of linked short stories.

Nonfiction: Andrew W.M. Beierle

In the city of brotherly love

Andrew W. M. Beierle is the author of The Winter of Our Discothèque (Kensington, 2002), winner of a 2002 Lambda Literary Award (Lammy) for Romance, and First Person Plural (Kensington, 2007), a finalist for the 2007 Gay Fiction Lammy. He lives on the Central Coast of California with his dog, Bandit.

Poetry: Rebecca Foust

First night in the room above the junk shop

Rebecca Foust’s seventh book, Only (Four Way Books 2022) earned a starred review in Publishers Weekly. Her recent poems, found in The Common, Five Points, Narrative, Poetry, and Ploughshares, were runners-up for the 2022 Missouri Review Editors Prize and won the James Hearst, Pablo Neruda, and Poetry International Prizes. Recognitions include Hedge brook, MacDowell, and Sewanee fellowships and a Marin County Poet Laureateship.

Translation:

Kisaburo Konoshima translated from the Japanese by David Callner

six japanese Tanka Poems

Kisaburo Konoshima was born in 1893 in Gifu, Japan. He left his village for an education in Tokyo when he was fifteen years old and went on to become a professor of political economics in Kyoto. In 1924 he abandoned academia for the life of a farmer and emigrated to California with his wife and children. In 1941, Konoshima was forced off his farm and he and his family were interned in the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming. Following the war, Konoshima moved to New York City, where he devoted himself to his children’s education and his poetry. In 1950 he joined the Japanese poetry society Cho-on, which published his entire opus of over fifteen hundred tanka in the Cho-on quarterly, from 1950 to his death in 1984.

David Callner is the author of six novels and many short works. He also translated a collection of Japanese tanka poetry into English, Hudson: A Collection of Tanka (Japan Times, 2004). Callner spent his childhood and youth in England, France, Italy, and America. He has resided in Japan for over forty years and teaches at Shinshu University. Callner is a grandson of the Japanese poet Kisaburo Konoshima and son of the painter Richard Callner.

Issue 41 Summer 2023

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